[maemo-developers] Maemo will switch (completely?) to Qt?

[From: David Greaves]

Aniello Del Sorbo wrote:
> 
> That makes full sense and I was expecting the switch over to Qt.
> It's only a shame, for me, that this requires C++ (no idea to which extent).

I'm a novice C++ programmer with basic C skills and experience playing with OO
langages over the years - I found it fairly simple to write a reasonable
application in C++.

I also found the Qt toolkit much easier to read and explore. From never using it
before to writing a Qt version of pannable-area took me a few months.

Before I learned Qt I learned C++/gtkmm and it was a little rough and
undocumented - that was actually the motivation to learn a cleaner OO solution.

In porting the Gtk app to Qt I practically replaced the widgets with the same
text in camelCase and even the arguments were mostly the same. It was
astonishing how similar that was.
I doubt it's an automatable process but it's not as hard as, eg, a java swing
re-write would be.

Finally the Qt docs are really superb - and that makes a huge difference.
http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/index.html

Obviously these are just my preferences :)

Jean-Christian de Rivaz wrote:
 > And each new languages need a manual custom binding to use QT because of
> C++. The GObject model has been designed exactly to avoid a such big
> wast of time. GObject allow automatic binding in any languages. This is
> why GTK is technically superior to QT. GObject is a hug success in a lot
> of very important libraries.

Will this help?
  http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3878

David

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